A Ukrainian
state security service officer was killed in a car explosion in the eastern
port city of Mariupol on Friday, the security service (SBU) said, blaming
Russian-backed separatists.
"The
SBU will punish the terrorists who blew up the car with the SBU officer in
Mariupol as soon as possible," it said in a statement.
Lieutenant
Colonel Oleksandr Kharaberiush was deputy chief of the local counterintelligence
department in the Donetsk region, parts of which have been under the control of
Russian-backed rebels since 2014, Ukrainian Interfax news said.
The SBU gave
no more details.
Mariupol, a
southeastern city of about 500,000 on the Sea of Azov, is about 30 km (20
miles) from the frontline of the conflict between the Ukrainian army and
separatists.
Donetsk
region police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin said the car had exploded on Friday
morning in the city center and the officer, the only person inside, died on the
spot.
The conflict
between Kiev and the separatists has killed more than 10,000 people since April
2014.
(Reuters)
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